QR Challenge: IT in Language Teaching
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. Who coined the terms “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”? |
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2. What are the meanings of the words CALL and MALL in the context of our course? |
| 3. What is a popular abbreviation for “open-access online courses that provide no constraints on class size”? |
| 4. What is meant by flipped classes approach? |
| 5. What is Khan Academy? |
| 6. Which term did Nick Pelling coin in 2002 and what does it mean in educational context? |
| 7. Whose name is associated with inquiry learning? |
| 8. Give an example of “data-driven learning”? |
| 9. What is a washback effect? Is it the same as backwash? |
| 10. How do you translate “task-based learning” into Russian? |
| 11. What’s the difference between summative and formative assessment? |
| 12. Decipher these abbreviations: TTT, STT, TWT. |
| 13. Design a short cloze test to illustrate the idea of it. |
| 14. Who do these words belong to: Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.? |
| 15. How do we call the approach when classes are given partly face-to-face and partly online? | |
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_coined_the_terms_“digital_natives”_and_“digital_immigrants”?
Question 1 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_are_the_meanings_of_the_words_CALL_and_MALL_in_the_context_of_our_course?
Question 2 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_a_popular_abbreviation_for_“open-access_online_courses_that_provide_no_constraints_on_class_size”?
Question 3 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_meant_by_flipped_classes_approach?
Question 4 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_Khan_Academy?
Question 5 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Which_term_did_Nick_Pelling_coin_in_2002_and_what_does_it_mean_in_educational_context?
Question 6 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Whose_name_is_associated_with_inquiry_learning?
Question 7 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Give_an_example_of_“data-driven_learning”?
Question 8 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_a_washback_effect?_Is_it_the_same_as_backwash?
Question 9 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_do_you_translate_“task-based_learning”_into_Russian?
Question 10 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What’s_the_difference_between_summative_and_formative_assessment?
Question 11 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Decipher_these_abbreviations:_TTT,_STT,_TWT.
Question 12 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Design_a_short_cloze_test_to_illustrate_the_idea_of_it.
Question 13 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_do_these_words_belong_to:_Today’s_students_are_no_longer_the_people_our_educational_system_was_designed_to_teach.?
Question 14 (of 15)
IT in Language Teaching: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_do_we_call_the_approach_when_classes_are_given_partly_face-to-face_and_partly_online?
Question 15 (of 15)